"My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam."

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Source : "Slam dunk - interview with basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon". Interview with Spike Lee, February 1994.

Hakeem Olajuwon

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“You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.”
“I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.”
“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”

Source : Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan
“I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.”
“In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.”
“People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.”
“Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.”

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